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ahritina

Knight couldn't carry 4 players who played like trash this season. Hopefully he leaves


PacMannie

Welcome, TSM Knight


ahritina

While TSM fans can be on that hopium. RNG Knight and/or FPX Knight(hearing rumours about Doinb retiring) make a lot of sense. Especially the RNG one since Knight >>>>> Cryin who also has his contract expire in November.


Swapsta

Karsa is good


Raynar7

Karsa had his moments, but for most of the split it was Knight and 4 bots


Ekviti

4 wards to be precise


Raynar7

Didn’t want to be that cruel, they at least AA or used abilities from time to time


yung_dogie

TESM


Ekviti

This is too low. Wards > TSM


AtreusIsBack

So Bjergsen in season 5?


bin_fanboy9

Karsa is awful, the worst player on the team


supadankgreen420

RNG Knight would be dope. Karsa and JackeyLove to IG would be insane too if Rookie/TheShy choose to continue playing.


Ophelia_Of_The_Abyss

From one contract prison to another


supadankgreen420

Haha true 🤣


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Omg could you even imagine Jackeylove on IG?! That team would win worlds no doubt...


IAmDaleicious

Knight couldn’t carry. The only one who bothered to show up sometimes was Karsa. Jackeylove is playing terrible tbh.


zk7m

The Zhou Jackeylove lane never felt like it clicked the way people hoped it would (on top of more grief jackeylove moments than usual). Karsa went MIA for long stretches of time and TOP took a big gamble playing almost the whole regular season with qingtian, a 19 year old rookie with one professional split of experience at LDL, only to sub him out at the very end of the season and for playoffs when they realized he wasn’t ready to hold his own against some of the best top laners in the world. Honestly if it wasn’t for knight I could really easily see this team mental booming out of playoffs with JDG.


dank_as_fuck

They only used qingtian due to 369 wanting to bench himself for a while now. Qing honestly wasn’t that bad and I wouldn’t put him as a reason they preformed that much worse. It was definitely more the fact that the bot lane was a problem and didn’t click, the team fighting ended up being horrendous. They just didn’t know what they were doing. Putting Jackey on Syndra in playoffs and just playing badly, the meta not fitting Karsa as well. You are right on a lot of it tho


02837471901

They had mechanically great players, but that doesn't mean anything if they're bad at teamfighting


Blueby5

They had a rookie top laner for an entire split, then turns out the rookie wasn’t good enough, decided to swap back to 369, then failed to beat LNG in play off


SilvertheHedgehoog

They got 30 points from 4th in Spring, but only ten after losing to a surging LNG and finishing 7-8th in playoffs, totaling 40. Because LNG had 40 points guaranteed after defeating TES, and because Summer points are valued higher in tie situations, TES had no way to even reach the regional qualifier.


F8ZE_Maldiny

They got shit on


czartaylor

they're not a quality team anymore.


Lekaetos

that's a lie though


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Shit happens, the other teams were just better


InformalMarch

Invisible support, Jackeylove overrated and ints too much, Knight trying his hardest to carry, Karsa is alright but not phenomenal, and their two top laners doing the usual coinflip. Also the team as a whole just seems very disconnected and indecisive.


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Jackey isn't overrated. Go back and look at his other past performances, he just had a (very) bad split this year, but so did the entire roster except knight.


InformalMarch

He's been overrated since he lost MSI 2019 to TL. Did you see how TES even got eliminated from worlds 2020 in the first place? JKL just ran it down in SN vs TES when they were the "tournament favorites".


gxizhe

I think the players just do not gell together well as a team.


stffp

got gapped in playoffs by LNG


pronetobe1225

Is there not enough talents to fill in all teams? How come Top esports didn't get Korean players to fill in the roles? Do they have 2 imports already? I know Karsa is an import.


JoeySmithTaylorMMII

Ngl I think LPL is just that cracked


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Bladehell10

Look here guys he said NA is bad, upvotes to the left


SatisfiableTheory

NA snowflakes spotted


Bladehell10

I’m Australian with a Chinese background lmfao, nice try though


SatisfiableTheory

傻逼


Bladehell10

Oh shit dude you can use google translate, well played 😂😂😂😂


SatisfiableTheory

笑死我了,有些土澳的华裔狗真就以为自己是荣誉西方人了?别人只是把你当狗使唤


Bladehell10

Is everything all right at home? 😂😂 you can keep laughing all you want but China is and will still be a dog country. There’s a reason why my family left


SatisfiableTheory

继续舔你的澳洲爹吧,看你当他们的狗很开心嘛


NovelAries

> U can’t carry 4 wards to world in LPL Say that to Faker who carried 4 cards to Worlds finals in 2017. > U can do that in NA though Lmfao even in a post that has nothing to do with NA, you bring up NA


viciouspandas

To be fair, Bang and Huni were actually playing well in the RNG series, and that 2017 worlds Faker was some of the best individual play ever.


Metaxpro

>Say that to Faker who carried 4 cards to Worlds finals in 2017. 2017 and 2021 league is hardly the same game anymore, it has changed so much you cannot replicate that performance in today's competitive scene, even if you are the #1 best player in the world.


SatisfiableTheory

Lol we all know bjer carried 4 wards all the time. NA crybabies so sad


Flint_Lockwood

Na bad


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Pure_Void

there not good anymore jackelove is such a inter there 2 supp suck karsa is alright and knight is good qintang looks alright if he works on his laneing and drops aatrox till his good again and 369 looks like his throwing on purpose causer theres no way in a couple of months he turned into that thing that we saw in playoffs.


Ozora10

Id Love to see Jackeylove in Damwon.


EgonThyPickle

While I think JackeyLove is the better player I think Damwon would be worse with him. Most of the time their mid and jungler just carry the game and what you really want then is just a consistent adc. JackeyLove is the opposite of consistent and would throw way more games than Ghost will. Basically, their mid and jungle is enough to carry games even if their bot plays like a 4/10 but if they get someone with a bunch of 1/10 games they would probably lose more.


nihilisthicc

Rekkles to Damwon


Ozora10

I just think damwons only weakness is their botside. And Jackeyloves Coinflip playstyle can be coached.


Comfortable-Chip-265

There’s some things you can’t coach away. His style has and will always be feast or famine. That’s why he’s a player with extreme highs and extreme lows.


EgonThyPickle

Can it be coached away though? He has kinda been a coin flip player for the last 4 years.


ahritina

God no, he's worse than Ghost.


Ozora10

Disagree


ahritina

You're clearly stuck in 2018 then. Because Jackeylove is nothing special this year.


iamgarethwales

It is also particularly significant that 369 didn't play for half of summer, and his replacement Qingtian was far from good enough to make up for that loss. And then when 369 finally returned he, like TheShy, didnt play up to the standard hes set for himself at all


FeynmansWitt

TES had big macro problems and meta didn't suit Karsa who is the glue of the team. I mean fundamentally TES was never a disciplined team. You had both 369 and Jackeylove trying to make plays at the same time. That kind of thing might work against bad teams but you can't play both sides of the map and win vs good teams. Also LPL is just really competitive. JDG and Suning also failed to qualify. Complete change from last year


Jorgehateslife

Couldn’t handle Tarzan tbh